Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: avsd!childers@decwrl.dec.com (Richard Childers) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular Phone & 911 - two replies Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 89 20:13:35 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Richard Childers Organization: Metaprogrammers International Lines: 27 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 190, message 6 of 7 decwrl!apple!zygot!john@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (John Higdon) writes: >When I got back onto the roadway, I approached him again (he was poking >along at around 40 MPH) and he sped up again. This time I backed off >and watched as another motorist tried to pass him and got the same >response that I had earlier. That did it. I picked up the phone and >dialed 911. It was the Bakersfield system that responded and I was >connected to the CHP, the initial call handling agency. Yup, a real emergency there. >I described the car and its actions and location. Not five minutes >later, two CHP cruisers zipped onto the highway, and off in the >distance I could see the gentleman being forced to the side of the >road. You talk about instant gratification! Talk about juvenile power trips. You could have waited a few minutes to get past him. This sounds like an infantile power trip. Instant gratification, indeed. -- richard * "We must hang together, gentlemen ... else, we shall most assuredly * * hang separately." Benjamin Franklin, 1776 * * * * ..{amdahl|decwrl|octopus|pyramid|ucbvax}!avsd.UUCP!childers@tycho *